Meaning & use
Hearable
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Capable of being heard; audible.
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The whisper was barely hearable over the roar of the crowd.
Engineers adjusted the frequency until the alert became clearly hearable indoors.
A note on using this word
"Hearable" is less common than its Latin-derived synonym "audible," though it is built directly from the native English verb "hear."
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